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Find The Best Place
(NAPS)- An estimated 40 million Americans will be 65 or older by 2010. If you are one of the many planning to retire and looking to relocate, one book can help ensure that you make the right move.
Completely revised and updated, "Retirement Places Rated, 7th Edition" (Wiley), by best-selling retirement author David Savageau, includes detailed statistical profilesof 200 retirement places in more than 40 states. Savageau uses the following seven factors to rate and rank the areas: climate, the economy, available services, ambience, costs of living, housing, and personal safety.
The chapter on housing includes data on shelter choices (homes, condos, apartments and mobile homes), as well as home prices and property taxes. To determine "ambience," Savageau relies on each area's historic preservation, water recreation, protected scenic and recreation areas, restaurants, bookstores, and fine-arts options.
Assessment tools, easy-to-read charts and graphs, interpretive commentaries by the author, and extensive appendixes will help you findthe best location to fityour lifestyle. The book also provides a personalized quiz to help you determine the factors that are most important to you, as well as information on additional resources- from newspapers to tax commissions.
The book is available in all major bookstores and online at www.frommers.com..
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